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Michigan's Search for More Doctors
There Is a National Shortage, but the Problem Is 'Acute' in This State
Bly LANE VANDERSLICE
T7HROUGHOUT the Unted"come by adding to state medical
State today, there is a 5 . p pp tfOailitie authorities agree.
in, concern over a riing need forsrTooo problems mot be con-
physicians. President Dwig~ht D sdered in this area. Medical
Esenhowset, and the nation'a medi- School fa cilities are not cheap to
ral leaders have predcted a setious build Training a doctor is an ex-
shortsge of doctors i atepsarae sot pensve proposition with labor-
tken to increase the number of I tores and other special facilities
M.D. Ns. and euipment. Building, costs re-
Althougl the need for doctorsais Elect oi expense.
naionwide, the shortage ta bessg Second, it rqure seven or
very sharpy felt haMchigan. eght years after the decision i
Tene fonoephsco 05 made to start building before
inl Michigan has been called - ' phsiians are first graduated.
"acute' by a six man committeera This is becaue of the necessary
on state medical edtucation needs. planning and construction before
rmscFuttebh aoftheoff 'i- 1r'l thealfirst students can enter medi-
an A. C. Fucsen o th Lni
versit medicat school, Dean Gor- This time las reuires foresight.
don H. Scott of Wayne Stat a --' ' in plannng facilities to meet f-
medical college, and Prof. 5. J. sI' Itoe need
Aerod of the Unto-raity"a Bureau V
of Pubic Health Erosnomis.,- AT THE present time, 325 firs
The committee'a interim reportw w year student are being ac-
made in 197, brie 1' sketches the "'- cepted at the stae's two medical
condition of the state'soppy of shools-200 at the University and
phy'sicians. 125 at Wayne State. About 90 per
"Campsared to thae nation a, ent of the freshman class grad-
'hole, and to the East North Cen- ae
tr'at states, toichian is lesselt 00 Additions to these facilities will
suppled with phsician sthan it. have to be made both to keep up
poputaton and per capil-i incomie ' > with Mihigan's growing popula-
'arrent. u *, tion and to increase the physician-
"If presesnt popult ion trend. w popua tion ratio,
continue, Moichian will have df ' Briefly, the picture looks like
riutty in maintaning its present . this Mot of the gro'th will come
atus regardin phsiian mat- .at Wayne State, with construction
power," -but no cange in the sie of
medical school erollment-at the
A LOK atthe hysiian-opo- Training students io become doctors is a ong and expensive task, After beginning a new medical Unvriy
muonrato, awidly ued nd, training facility it willIbe seven to eight yearsbefore the first students are graduated How best I spsil la e eia
with some qualifications, a valid school will reach the planing
indicaton of te leve of theavail-to increase Michigan's medical schools is currently being studied by experts,tg ntenxtfv ess l
ability of physician's services, the years will new scientific ad-'has a per capita income of $,23' pat of theanwr medical a u-; ilding plans however are subject
shows that for the United States in varying degrees to one big if-if
as a whole, there are 133 physi- vances being offset by lengthening !Connecticut, $2,097, Ithorities agree tat it cannot bethsaesoosisfnnclpr-
rians per 100.000pouain life expectancy., which has resulted Michigan is at least a partial, counted on as a dependable or lhemstaesle t iaca r
Tis' figure has changed el- in tsareased requirement for cacc exception to this trend, Whie 'sufficient source of new medical
tivel ' little in the past several ofptee.wt crncile ighth isoper capita istrame 'ills'matnpower. WY.ITH FRST YEAR enrollment
decades. In 1920, th.ere were 136 o tibyats t chotite133 $2,131 it is twenty-third in ph AN als ben1 akeo at 200, the Unisersity medical
phy'siins aer 1040t0Bttoy population ro 13 can-population ratos STESAEalobig ae oschool is considered to have
The up and dowons in the inter- per 10,0t0 togue.Miosigan los Thee arsatesworse of than ! enrea se the percentae of do- eached the maximm desirable
venig yarshav bee reatiely109 phys-'canssfor each 100.00t of Mcigan 5in the physictans popuila- tos remaining in Michiganenomntfr edclshl.shai puainNwYkadLonai.Msisiiotkene!rugitrnrgasin u-
aliht Te nedtaTpheitnsehsdtspfporcttaPchysicisoatonnslo shaaspp tTcaeenethsulyitermajoars o metdheocaylatr sedialscoo
resaaised roughly rostant oae CsG-onetcu h tt sh th e of the worctooasonly 4 doctosa; tate hospitto and pa cement ac- ostlay -ensisioned by the Usiversity
eas h 'Inuombes of ocors to pop- ps-c10000 Opoutation. It prtisoitie by the Michiogan Heaho for the net fie years is constru-
LaeIas ie i t I oo hav 193 ps sr l00,000 and capitiscome i$946. Counil. Iion af the second unit of the
1e4ipor 100The10Michi-ane paitye Sinceg1949'\MicisganhIsben Howeer een if all ptaysictans medical science buildin. at a total
editr a Th Miciga Dal totssnate 00ntat mor hscaseducated in Itichigan050were t10st, a-ctof $9.200000. Cosstrucion 'a
tell sihat is being donec o IN GNp RALst swththts hase Istor dc s he stoate thcanahave torso there sills-old ntolbe 'paned to start sometine next
hniftegrhegsedfo 1 t pet v ,'s~ainscomse at o -letsThis ha bencaused manly ctuht iteiecddmn, year. subject, again, to legislative
doctors. hla s ivG pyii 'a pops 109yte sreaer dmansd hee I A sgnifiat portion of dhe task, backing.
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